, 8s Castlegar News _ Jonvary 3, 1985 By VICTORIA GRAHAM NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, a political novice with a sweeping mandate to govern, has inherited the world’s most intractable democracy with its staggering problems of poverty, corruption and com- munal violence. * Gandhi, a 40-year-old former airline pilot, won a landslide election vietory last week that officially estab- lished the Nehru family dynasty, legitimizing the power he inherited from his mother and tutor, Indira Gandhi, who was assassinated Oct. 31. Now begins the test of his freshman leadership of 730 million_people-on-the-turbulent-subcontinent--Can the mild-mannered Rajiv Gandhi, with less then four years’ experience in government, rule the volatile country that his mother dominated for 15 of the last 18 years? From angry Kashmiri Moslems to outraged Assamese to tribal insurgents in the northeast, Gandhi faces many of the same problems with which his masterful and iron-willed mother grappled. India is also plagued by a widening gap between rich and poor, disease, high infant mortality, illiteracy, pression of women, and rising inflation. RELATIONS ERODE Meanwhile, already poor relations with Pakistan have eroded over allegations that Pakistan has aided Sikh terrorists. i have also pi with Sri Lanka, an island country off India’s southeast coast where the Tamil minority is waging a guerilla war for independence — with sympathy drawn from India’s Tamil community of 50 million. But it was the Punjab crisis, which many critics said Indira Gandhi created through her confrontation politics, that is the most serious. In that northern state, Sikh extremists have been waging guerrilla warfare to win more autonomy for the area, where Sikhism is the majority religion. Hinduism is the majority religion overall in India. Mrs. Gandhi was shot, the government says, by two of her Sikh security guards. Her son has received threats from Sikh terrorists since his mother ordered the army to rout extremists from the sect’s sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar in June. More than 1,000 people died in the assault on the temple complex. How Rajiv Gandhi handles the Punjab powderkeg can make or break him. During his campaign, Gandhi pledged that solving the Punjab crisis and ning the faith of India’s 13 million Sikhs would be his top priority. Gandhi inherits problems ANALYSIS As Gandhi takes command of India’s Byzantine, survival-of-the-fittest politics, his first tasks will be form- ing a new government and cabinet. Observers are. watching for new faces to replace his mother's coterie. He also must shape up a leviathan Congress party, born during the independence struggle but now largely a. flaecid collection which includes many hacks and carpet- baggers for whom money, not merit, matters. Gandhi has impressed people with his dignity and poise since the assassination, but they have not been speaking of him as brilliant, innovative, charismatic or courageous. Instead, he has echoed his mother’s stock phrases that India is imperiled by external forces and internal saboteurs and vowed only to carry out her foreign/and domestic policies. fis one original pledge has been to weed out uption and inefficiency in politics and government. lost observers are skeptical, considering that under the current_system bribery is taken for granted. In foreign affairs, Gandhi pledges to maintain India’s position as leader of the non-aligned movement, its close ties with the Soviet Union and its wary distance from the United States, which supplies sophisticated weapons to rival Pakistan. Domestically he has pledged to follow his mother's socialist economic policies, which emphasize the public sector, but has proposed nothing new to improve living standards. WATCHES STYLE While Gandhi promises little change in substance, political observers are looking for critical differences in political style between mother and son. They are watching whether Gandhi pursues his mother's confrontation policies, as in Punjab, Kashmir and opposition-run Andhra Pradesh states, or seeks consensus; whether he seeks all power to himself as did his mother, or shares it; whether he regards all rivals as enemies, as did his mother, or as legitimate political challengers. | (BUSINESS GIRECTOR Telephone 365- lations Castlegar News ee ere dome TMLee r the month of February. Brian L. Brown Certified General Accountant 270 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 MOROSO, MARKIN & BLAIN Certified General Accountants 241 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-7287 Soligo, Koide - & John In the campaign, Gandhi tarred the entire opp as unpatriotic and dangerous and even alleged they were aiding forces bent on destabilizing India. 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Centre director Lucille Doucette said this week that the centre's budget this year will increase $45,000 — from $70,000 to $115,000. Some of that increase is due to the $16,000 feasibility study recently ap- proved by the National Museums. However, the centre has also received inereases in grants from both the federal and provincial governments. The federal government has given the centre a $1,300 “bonus” for 1985 and another $1,300 “raise” for 1985-86. That increases federal funding to $24,900 and marks the second increase in two years. As well, the province has increased its funding from $7,500 to $8,000. “Both levels of government are encouraged by what they see going on,” said Doucette. The federal government was rum oured to be cutting back on the 23 National Exhibition Centres in B.C. However, Doucette said the centre directors made a plea for more funding at a recent special meeting with National Museum officials and it apparently paid off. Meanwhile, the rural areas and municipalities in the Central Kootenay Regional District have contribu a total of $1,000 so far — the first time the regional distriet has funded the centre. As well, CJAT Radio recently gave the centre $1,000 from its community aceount fund. And while Doucette says she's pleased with the funds and has high hopes for the future of the centre, she adds, “It's still got a long, long, way to go. She noted that the centre will receive a facelift in the next few months when it receives a new coat of paifit. The tiny gift shop will be expanded to sell painting along with local crafts. In addition, Doucette will be hiring a full-time assistant to help relieve some of the work load. Doucetté notes that it appears “everything has just come together recently, Dut it has been a year of hard work that has led to the increase In. funding. The centre's next exhibit will be Atlantic Visions, a history of handwork im the Atlantic provinces. It begins Jan. 16 and runs until Mareh 15. 2.3 PER CENT Teachers given salary increase By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer An arbitration board has given Castlegar teachers a 2.3 per cent salary increase for January to June of 1985. But, the six-month pay raise isn't final. Tt must still be approved by Ed . stab- arded by an arbitration board was 4.1 per cent for the Golden district. Eleven districts in the Okanagan got three per cent the metro V district got a two per cent increase, and “a couple” of districts didn't receive an increase, said Myers. The other three districts in the West zone — which also had their Bb smsclaniend; ead Araic Myers, spokesman for the. B.C. Te- acher’s Federation Thursday. Peck, who has no deadline for ruling on teachers’ settlements, said in an interview that he's reviewed only one of the 60 settlements that, went to arbitration after Nov. 15. “The final word comes, I guess, after I've reviewed the whole lot,” Peck said Thursday. “I'll just deal with them as quickly as I can.” The Castlegar increase is below the weighted average of 2.46 per cent for the entire provi The weig arbitration hearings here last month — are Grand Forks, Nelson and Trail. Myers said Grand Forks and Nelson were both awarded a 2.05 per cent increase, and Trail was given a 2.4 per cent increase. Castlegar District Teachers’ As- sociation president Mike Rodgers said he was unhappy with the board's decision, for Castlegar. “We felt we deserved a three per cent raise. We presented a case for it — other industries in the area have had a four per cent raise.” C teachers haven't had a pay average takes into account the number of teachers in each district, as opposed to the “simple” average for the province, which is slightly higher, Myers said. The highest salary increase aw- Plaza work to begin March 1 By CasNews Staff A Grand Forks based union con. tractor has been awarded the contract to do a $46,000 renovation of Castleaird Plaza’s facade, said a spokesman for the plaza’s management Friday. Frank Delalla, general manager of property services for Gulf Pacific Investments Ltd. said Boundary Industries — which has an office in Castlegar — will begin work March 1. Cedar facing on the outside of the plaza will be replaced with aluminum siding, and painted to match the recently renovated SuperValu store in » he said. “It will provide some sort of continuity to the SuperValu store,” Delalla said. Gulf Pacific had planned to have the work done last fall, but encountered hold-ups in deciding on a contractor. It was finally narrowed down to two contractors, and Boundary Industries got the job late last month. “We were trying to firm up prices,” Delalla explained. “Unfortunately, it seemed to go just on and on.” He said in hiring a union contractor, Gulf Pacific is hoping to avoid a repeat of demonstrations such as the ones held . in front of the new SuperValu last summer by local trade unionists. The protests took place when trade unionists learned the contract to renovate the new SuperValu was to be awarded to a non-union contractor. increase in two years, says Rodgegs, while their earning power has drop; 9.5 per cent due to inflation. Rodgers said he didn’t know whether “the award includes an increase in increments of .5 per cent for about 60 of 143.teachers in the Castlegar district The increments are paid to teachers annially for their first 10 years. “In the past it’s always been apart from salary,” he said. “But in the last couple of years the government has said it’s part of the increase.” Rodgers added that he “wouldn't be surprised” if the increments were ineluded as part of the increase Myers said he'd been informed that the 2.4 per cent increase for Trail ineludes increments, but added: “I'm not absolutely certain. Somebody said there was some question about that.” Five school districts which reached settlements before the Nov. 15 arb TO FORM COMPANY Ki * ‘unhappy’ with ruling itration deadline had their agreements rejected by Peck for being “excessive” in their salary demands. Peck said that because the going rate for private sector settlements is 3.82 per cent for a 12-month period, settlements for a six-month period should be about half that. “If 3.3 is the settlement level for a 12-month contract and someone comes in with that for six months, they're entitled legally to crank up another increase in the seventh month,” said Peck Myers said that negotiations for the collective agreement covering the 1985-86 school year will begin in March. If settlements haven't been reached by May 1, the arbitration process auto matically begins, with a May 31 deadline for completion. The January to June teachers’ contracts correspond with a six-month transition period for B.C. school districts. continued on poge A3 College eyes request By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer Selkirk College's vocational campus director has asked the college to set up a unique company at the Rosemont campus for fixing up used fire trucks. Campus director Bruce Meldrum told college board members at its last meeting that currently, no one in Canada “retrofits” fire equipment He said that currently, there is a growing demand for fire protection in the West Kootenays — as evidenced by recent referendums in Balfour and the North Shore and interest expressed in the Slocan Valley and Blueberry Creek. “But for many communities, fire protection — using néw equipment — is prohibitively expensive in that a new pumper unit costs upwards of $80,000, Meldrum said. He added that it is anticipated that a retrofitted unit which the college could turn out, would sell for about $20,000, depending on the initial cost of the unit and the modification: necessary The project would not only be of value to small communities across Canada, but would also provide inval uable training for Selkirk College stu dents and a potential source of future revenue for the college, Meldrum said. Retrofitting of fire trucks involves metal fabricating (replacement of pumper tanks, body modification and modifications to service gear)-mechan- ical rebuilding (brakes and motor) and pumping system inspection (rebuilding and modifications where necessary). In the past six months, Meldrum said that the college has completed two community service projects which have provided excellent training oppor tunities for students in welding speci figally, but also for students in TRAC Heavy Duty Mechanics course and TRAC Millwrights course “The tie-in with our three programs make retrofitting a natural and ideal training project for the Selkirk College Rosemont campus,” he said. continued on poge A3